AN ANGLO-INDIAN ENGRAVED SILVER-MOUNTED, TORTOISESHELL AND IVORY TABLE CABINET

Dr. Amin Jaffer notes that the form of the present cabinet, fitted with a pair of doors rather than a fall-front, was introduced as a result of Western influence at the end of the seventeenth century. A cabinet of similar form is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India: the Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker, London, 2002, no. 25) while a closely related table cabinet of comparable arrangement but devoid of an arcaded interior, was sold Christie's, London, 9 November 2006, lot 128.